The Cadre, Tués. Feb.l8,1975, 
     
    
   
   
    
     'U.PE.I. is at present an 
     
     institution which is-governed 
     
     by two bodies — the Senate 
     
     which has responsibility for 
     
     all matters "of academic con— 
     
     cern"_and the Board of Gover- 
     
     nors which deals with all af- 
     
     fairs which cost money. 0n 
     
     Senate there are six people 
     
     who sit ex—officio, the Pre- 
     
     sident of the Student Union, 
     
     the three faculty deans and 
     
     three members of the adminis— 
     
     tration, as well as five ele— 
     
     cted students, thirteen elec— 
     
     ted faculty, and one repres- 
     
     entative of Holland College. 
     
     The Board of Governors has nine 
     
     members appointed by the prov- 
     
     incial government, the Presi- 
     
     dent and Chancellor of the 
     
     university, the president of 
     
     Holland College, and six el— / 
     
     ected members—two from each of 
     
     the faculty the student body 
     
     and the Senate. Thus there are 
     
     three people who are members of 
     
     both bodies, President Baker, 
     
     and his cohorts, Regis Duffy 
     
     and Ken Ozmon. . 
     
    

    
     All well and good. We have 
     
     then forty—one people who con— 
     
     trol our university; only eight 
     
     are students. Even if that co- 
     
     uld be justified the whole sys- 
     
     tem is largely artificial. If 
     
     a "matter of academic concern" 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘happens to cost money (as most 
     
    
   
   
    
     do) then who gets the final 
     
     say on the matter. You guessed 
     
     it — the unelective, unrepren— 
     
     tative Board of Governors. 
     
     Further if a matter does 
     
     come up which concerns (or, 
     
     more accurately, is deemed to 
     
     concern) both bodies then who 
     
     is going to act as intermedia— 
     
     ry between the two in case of 
     
    
   
   
    
     ~ dispute? As the only members 
     
    
   
   
    
     of both bodies are President 
     
     Baker, Regis Duffy, Ken 
     
     Ozmon they would seem to be 
     
     obviOus choices. This gives 
     
     these three men considerable 
     
     power to interpret (or even 
     
     prevert) the position of one 
     
     body to the other. And if you 
     
     don't think these three will 
     
     act as one, go to a meeting 
     
     of Senate to see who slavish— 
     
     ly follows Baker's line. Oth— 
     
     er than Mike Hennessey (the 
     
     one who‘s Registrar) I can 
     
     think of two in particular... 
     
     Don't try to watch them in ac- 
     
     tion at Board meetings, though 
     
     these are closed to the public 
     
     (hmm). There is very little 
     
     doubt in my mind that this pow- 
     
     er to at least subtly change 
     
     the positions of the two bod- 
     
     ies has been used in the past 
     
     and will continue to be used. 
     
     If an avenue to power exists 
     
     then it will be exploited. . 
     
     Even if this little loop- 
     
     hole was sewn up and the Board 
     
     was made more representative 
     
     of the "university community". 
     
     then the most important issue 
     
     would still remain unresolved} 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the Senate (Ind Board ofGflornorS 
     
    
   
   
    
     All things that cost money are 
     
    
   
   
    
     'of academic interest from sal- 
     
    
   
   
    
     aries to facilities and all 
     
     but the most trivial matters 
     
    
   
   
    
     of academic concern cost money. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is the height of the absurd, 
     
     to have one body legislating on 
     
     monetary matters and'another 
     
     legislating on those-of acade— 
     
     mic concern when in reality 
     
     there is no difference. 
     
    

    
     As long as we have two bod- 
     
     ies which deal with the same 
     
     thing then conflicts will ar— 
     
     ise (unless, as is both argue— 
     
     able and undesireable, all are 
     
     ’a bunch of conformist assholes) 
     
     There are three ways ' of de— 
     
     aling with such conflicts, all 
     
     undesireable. 1) leave them, 
     
     making the univerSity unmanage 
     
     eable,2) allow one man or a 
     
     small group of men to act as 
     
     liason between the two bodies, 
     
     thereby giving this small gro— 
     
     up the real power at the univ— 
     
     ersity or 3) subjugate one bo— 
     
     dy to the other making it es— 
     
     sentially irrelevant. I would 
     
     suggest that here we use the 
     
    
   
   
    
     I 
     
    
   
   
    
     second and third of these ale ’decide what kind of services 
     
    
   
   
    
     ternatives. When we don't give system is good enough for the 
     
     the power to R.J. et al we su- governments of ten provinces 
     
     bordinate the largely elective and U of T then just possibly 
     
     and open Senate to the largly it would suit UPEI. 
     
    

    
     closed and appointive Board of .If such a thing was imple— 
     
     Governors. mented here then I would sug— 
     
    
   
   
    
     It appears then that the gest the following composition 
     
     only solution is to amalgam- ,for it: ten members elected by 
     
     ate the two bodies and thus and from the faculty of UPEI, 
     
     eliminate the loop-holes, bur- ten members elected by and 
     
     eaucracy, and just general all from the student body of UPEI, 
     
     around bull—shit that surroundsand five members elected by 
     
     the‘activities of the two.bod— and from the Island community 
     
     ies. The University of Toronto (maybe one from each school 
     
     about sir years ago did just unit). Unless the body is both 
     
     this, strangely enough on the elected from and open to the 
     
     suggestion of the President. public'then iffEfill never re- 
     
     Can you imagine our dear R.J. present the opinibns, the deS— 
     
     suggesting anything that might ires, the needs of the people 
     
     be construed progressive or WhO’it is supposed to serve. 
     
     worse democratic?? So far theirTo have the governing body on 
     
     attempt appears to work quite camPUS closed to the public 
     
     well. After all the provincial and two-thirds appointive is 
     
     governments of both Ontario an affront to the intelligence 
     
     and PEI use this type 0f SYS' would be available to the peo— 
     
     tem- Maybe they WOU1d Prefer ple of the province. If this 
     
     to have one body dealing with of all concerfied‘ 
     
     matters of monetary considera-' 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion and another which would David MacRae 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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